Henke Wermelin and The Nightshift present The New Black is Blue

HENKE WERMELIN & THE NIGHTSHIFT from Gothenburg, Sweden make their debut with the album The New Black Is Blue – a cavalcade ofwarm pop gems and fierce battle songs.

“The day after the right wing party won the swedish electionI sat with my guitar and was gonna record a fight song to put on Facebook for my friends – and that was the start for Eat Your Money” Wermelin explains. The title of the song is taken fromthis Eat Your Money.

“I think it’s fascinating, not to say funny, how 50% of the people vote for a politic that concerns itself with making priviliges for a minority according to the principle of the majority having less. It’s like believing that everyone can winin a pyramid game” says Wermelin.

In the beginning of the new milennium Wermelin moved fromSundsvall in the north of Sweden to Gothenburg in the south.

The Nightshift was formed in the end of the first decade andthe constellation released a single which profits were donatedto the swedish Cancer foundation Cancerfonden. The theme of darkness and death haunts Wermelin as well on this release:

Despite a wealthy number of uptempo songs this is a rathergloomy and introspective record that deals with existence and desillusion as well as hope. Its conclusion might be that evenif you shelved your hope for this world you might still wannadescribe and criticize it. I mean, I still wanna dance while the ship is sinking” Wermelin projects.

Large parts of ’The New Black Is Blue’ was recorded by the members in the band. The work took longer than expected thoughand Wermelin had time to write yet another record!

“Yeah, se there’s yet another record just waiting to be recorded” Wermelin promises, “…but first we’re gonna playsome shows this summer!”